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Why does Cygwin/X freeze right after startup?

April 26, 2017Cygwin freeze right startup

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Why does Cygwin/X freeze right after startup?

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Zone Alarm 5 is known to break Cygwin/X. As a result you’ll see this line (or a similar) as last output in /var/log/XWin.0.log Rules = “xorg” Model = “pc101” Layout = “us” Variant = “(null)” Options = “(null)” Disabling Zone Alarm will not solve this problem. You can only uninstall Zone Alarm 5 and switch to an earlier version (4.5 is known to work) or use a different personal firewall.

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Zone Alarm 5 is known to break Cygwin/X. As a result you’ll see this line (or a similar) as last output in /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log Rules = “xorg” Model = “pc101” Layout = “us” Variant = “(null)” Options = “(null)” Disabling Zone Alarm will not solve this problem. You can only uninstall Zone Alarm 5 and switch to an earlier version (4.5 is known to work) or use a different personal firewall.